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Bug 512880 - recursive symbolic links cause nautilus to crash
recursive symbolic links cause nautilus to crash
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 470624
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-01-29 19:47 UTC by matt chisholm
Modified: 2008-02-04 12:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description matt chisholm 2008-01-29 19:47:59 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. create recursive symbolic links a -> b and b -> a in a folder
2. open that folder with nautilus
3. crash!

If ls can handle broken links like this, so should nautilus.

Stack trace:


Other information:
mkdir crashnautilus
cd crashnautilus
ln -s a b
ln -s b a
nautilus .
Comment 1 matt chisholm 2008-01-29 19:52:00 UTC 
throw these two symlinks into the user home directory, and you have an infinite loop, since nautilus tries to open the user's home directory when it restarts after a crash. :)
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-02-04 12:16:47 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 470624 ***